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andyideas: You can buy this at one of the Bad Books shows. I...

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 17:12:10 -0500

andyideas:

You can buy this at one of the Bad Books shows. I love it.

So fuckin dope.

"We are MLS supporters. We can’t be told when to sit/stand/sing or wave flags. This is the sport...."

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:35:33 -0500

“

We are MLS supporters. We can’t be told when to sit/stand/sing or wave flags. This is the sport. This is how we roll.

Each respective front office throughout the league loves supporter photo ops but also have to accept that our style of support is a thoughtful and passionate expression that can’t be dictated or orchestrated through policy or instruction. It has to be organic or it is a lie. We support from the heart.

”

- SPORTING KC STILL FEARS THE FLAG :: AN UPDATE FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY

#feartheflag Wizards.

Photography: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Sparky is such a boss.

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:39:55 -0500

Photography: Tasos Katopodis/Getty

Sparky is such a boss.

pitchinvasion: Pitch Invasion is approaching 10,000 followers...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:57:20 -0500

pitchinvasion:

Pitch Invasion is approaching 10,000 followers here on Tumblr! (9,648 as we write) Thank you for your support, and to celebrate that milestone, everyone who reblogs this post will be entered into a draw to win a complimentary annual subscription to XI, a North American soccer quarterly edited by Pitch Invasion founder Tom Dunmore.

The draw will be made when we hit 10,000 and the winner’s Tumblr name will be posted here. Thanks for following!

weaslette: Olympic Divers LULZ

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:38:36 -0500

weaslette:

Olympic Divers

LULZ

harleyplays: My beard

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 12:25:11 -0500

harleyplays:

My beard

harleyplays: Too true to be funny. No Diego, NO!

Wed, 02 May 2012 15:47:38 -0500

harleyplays:

Too true to be funny.

No Diego, NO!

The Soccer Mom

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:58:04 -0500

runofplay:

Sometime during the run-up to the 1996 Presidential election, a Republican political advisor named Alex Castellanos told a reporter from the Washington Post that incumbent Bill Clinton was going after a newly identified demographic of American voters called “soccer moms.” Middle-class, suburban, and constantly on the go in her loaded Dodge Caravan, the Soccer Mom represented a burgeoning group of swing voters key to the outcome of the election. Soccer Moms were family-first, possibly affluent, generally moderate, not necessarily assured of voting lockstep with their husbands, and therefore totally up for grabs. In other words, Soccer Moms were America’s political future.

The ‘96 election set in motion a series of events that culminates with this writing. After more than 15 years and the loss of countless hairs while watching the good name of soccer being dragged through the mud as part of a phrase that sums up everything soccer isn’t supposed to be, I’ve been compelled to lash out against this ruinous phrase.

I detest the Soccer Mom.

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nprradiopictures: Photo By Optickarma This photo was taken by...

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:19:45 -0600

nprradiopictures:

Photo By Optickarma

This photo was taken by Optickarma, one of our Flickr group users, at the end of the England versus Holland soccer match at the Wembley Stadium on Feb 29. The photo is a long exposure shot of around 80,000 fans emptying the stadium after the match and heading towards the subway station. The mounted police regulate the crowd to prevent overcrowding in the station.

Submit to The Picture Show Flickr group here.

indiemondayarchives: / website / facebook / an afternoon with...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:17:01 -0600

indiemondayarchives:

/ website / facebook /

an afternoon with Phantom Note Productions

Last Friday, we hung out with Sam Edgin, founder of Phantom Note Productions. The idea was just to get to know him a little better, hear how things were going, and get enough info to write a good feature for his website. We drove around for a couple hours as he showed us the venues he books for, and as we chatted, we realized that what Phantom Note is up to is way way cooler than we’d thought.

Sam, a Chicago native, has been part of the local music scene since high school. He’s spent the last several years working for different production companies around the city, booking for well-known venues including Subterranean and Beat Kitchen. Though enjoying his job, he became increasingly frustrated with how the industry interacted with bands. In this city, a band is bookable if they draw a good crowd, not if they’re a good band. From a venue’s perspective, this makes perfect sense, but for new bands, it’s a very difficult thing to navigate. You have to get your foot in the door somehow, but if you take a show and don’t draw the right amount of people, you hurt your chances of getting booked again. And if you’re just starting out, you most likely won’t draw enough people.

Sam also plays in a band, and knows exactly how that feels. It is this tension that led him to start his own company, Phantom Note Productions, and to found it on a love of music and Chicago, not numbers. Using his connections, Sam landed a few nights he books weekly at clubs around the city, including the Volcano Room at the Bottom Lounge, and the legendary Fireside Bowl.

Volcano Room

Fireside Bowl

He has also turned a neighborhood dive bar, El Mamey into Chicago’s newest venue. El Mamey is a block from Humboldt Park and is as inauspicious as could be. With no stage and filled with kitschy decorations and Christmas lights, it seems an unlikely place to host bands most nights of the week. It works, though, and largely due to Sam.

El Mamey

The vision behind Phantom Note is to put together a bill of good bands every night. It’s to draw together the Chicago community based on their love of music and desire to support each other, instead of focusing on which bands bring the biggest crowds. It’s a mindset that goes back to the pre-internet days, where you had to see a band live to know if you liked them, and bought their CD if you did. Of course, those days are long gone, but what Pandora and Spotify can’t offer is the sense of community that is shared by a crowd at a live show.

This isn’t the kind of thing that just happens, though, which brings us to the second value held by Sam and Phantom Note. He is a huge believer in doing it yourself. And it’s not easy. Because of the commitment to helping the local scene, Phantom Note does not generate a lot of profit, meaning Sam also works two separate jobs. “I’m a big believer in doing it yourself,” says Sam, “but I’m coming to realize how important it is to do things together.” And then we realized that Sam doesn’t just want to start a production company. He’s not trying to just book shows. He wants to change the face of music in Chicago. Because Phantom Note has the power to books shows, it’s the perfect tool to give bands a foot in the door and make them a part of a Chicago family. And even though the shows are at dive bars with 100 person caps, the point is to build something together. On any given night, Sam wants people to show up at one of his venues just to see who’s playing, even if they’ve never heard of them. That is truly supporting local music.

If you’re part of a band in Chicago, you’re invited to be a part of this. If you’re not in a band, you’re still invited. Phantom Note wants to do it together. And if you question how committed they really are, we happened to a go to a show at El Mamey after the interview. Sam was the doorman. He spent most of Friday night sitting at a table by the door, checking IDs. No one other than the bands knew that he’d put all of it together. So how’s that for doing it yourself? Sam’s all over that.

Now it’s up to us to support our local shows, support Phantom Note online, and get in touch with them to book a show. But become a part of what’s going on and let’s do it together.

.Dan Hawthorne

*all photography by Kimmy from Birchblue Photography (click)

FUCK YEAH DAVE

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:10:27 -0600

FUCK YEAH DAVE

tonythaxton: thesochillnetwork: Close enough Fantastic.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:42:46 -0600

tonythaxton:

thesochillnetwork:

Close enough

Fantastic.

tonythaxton: Happy T.Hanksgiving everyone! (Taken with...

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:40:28 -0600

tonythaxton:

Happy T.Hanksgiving everyone! (Taken with instagram)

So, this is how I’ll be singing this song from now...

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:51:07 -0500

So, this is how I’ll be singing this song from now on.

motioncitysoundtrack:

Here we are at @yogabbagabba live in Detroit, playing a reworked kid-friendly version of “Everything Is Alright”.

le_carlson: RT @Section8Chicago: @PaladiniXI Good luck washing off the hippie stink from @KyleBeckerman dreadlocks. #cf97

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:02:05 -0500

le_carlson: RT @Section8Chicago: @PaladiniXI Good luck washing off the hippie stink from @KyleBeckerman dreadlocks. #cf97

le_carlson: @pattyberron Just gave me a huge win over CBus in #FIFA12. Thanks, bud!

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:03:19 -0500

le_carlson: @pattyberron Just gave me a huge win over CBus in #FIFA12. Thanks, bud!

Geggy Tah- Lotta Stuff

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:48:00 -0500

Geggy Tah- Lotta Stuff:

Never heard of them? Yes you have. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfRNZucoCyw&feature=artist —Everyone has heard this song at least once.

In the 90’s, my mom (for some weird reason) would buy the albums of bands that were pretty much destined to have one hit- Semisonic, Dog’s Eye View, etc…

The cover of Sacred Cow caught the eye of a 12-year-old me. I put it in and heard the opening telephone conversation. It was an eerie, scratchy call from “Grandaddy” helping Geggy Tah design their cover. “People are used to that by now”

“Whoever You Are” lead the album off with an organ drone and what, to 12-year-old me, sounded like Resident Evil zombies. I had heard the song on the radio, so I didn’t pay much attention. The next song I paid a lot of attention to. “Lotta Stuff” is such an awesome rocker. I can recall blasting it from my boombox and playing along on my drums. If only the volume knob could go a little more, I’d actually be able to hear it… and if the CD didn’t skip from me beating the Christ of the drums.

It’s so weird how the lyrics applied to little dude like me at the time the album came out. Of course “Lotta Stuff” was like all of my toys. Now, it’s got much more meaning.

There’s a lotta stuff in my gut that I can’ t seem to get rid of

I wish the whole universe would absorb cause it’s so much bigger

Unless I take the time

All this stuff will be mine for the rest of my stuffed life

Enjoy. Check out the rest of the album if you get a chance. It’s, at least, sonically interesting.

le_carlson: @lnkbacani Dude... fuckin' tell me about it. Replace Thursday with WEEKEND for us..:(((((

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 06:12:33 -0500

le_carlson: @lnkbacani Dude... fuckin' tell me about it. Replace Thursday with WEEKEND for us..:(((((

Photo

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:39:48 -0500

Oh, haiii Tumblr!

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:17:41 -0500

Forgot I had one of these. I should probably ease up on the frequency of FB link dumping. Also, I need an avenue for my longform music reviews (aka “This sucks because…”) and the occasional emotional outpouring that I will delete a week later.

This works.